Mee
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: (i) from Irish Gaelic Mac Conmidhe; (ii) from Irish Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh, descendant of Miadhach, 'honourable'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mee is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 8.5K
- USUnited States1 in 108K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Irish Gaelic MacConmidhe(measured from records)
- Irish GaelicÓ(measured from records)
(i) from Irish Gaelic Mac Conmidhe; (ii) from Irish Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh, descendant of Miadhach, 'honourable'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mee is read(measured from records)
Mee is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English53%
(i) from Irish Gaelic Mac Conmidhe; (ii) from Irish Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh, descendant of Miadhach, 'honourable'
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Obsolete spelling of me.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Malay18%
misspelling of mi
as a wordrecorded as Indonesiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Korean11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mee in Korean.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mee counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #365 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Mee | 73 |
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Mee | 21 |
| US United States | — | 3,088 | 1 in 108K | 2.9K | Mee | 306 |
| HK Hong Kong | #383 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Mee | 36 |
| SG Singapore | #631 | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Mee | 54 |
| SE Sweden | — | 341 | 1 in 30K | 341 | — | 11 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #126 | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Mee | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mee is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
McNamee. 2. Anglicized form of Gael. 6 Miadhaigh ‘descendant of Miadhach’, a byname meaning ‘Honourable’. Dim. (from 2): Meehan. Patr.: Meeson.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
habitational name from places called (Le) Mee in Mayenne, Eure-et-Loir, and Seine-etMarne, derived from Old French me(i)s ‘farmstead’ (Latin mansus).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Miadhaigh ‘descendant of Miadhach', a byname meaning ‘honorable’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Mee Raikesb. 1784English banker; (1784-1863)
- John Mee Fullerb. 1834GBFellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; Vicar of Bexley; Professor of Ecclesiastical History at King's College, London
- Don Mee Choib. 1962USKorean-American poet, translator
- Kang Mi Kimb. 1969KRnot in their usual nameKorean soprano
- Sue Mi Terryb. 1975KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean-American writer and political commentator
- Thomas M. Daldynot in their usual nameBritish physician
- Mee Kam NgCNresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.9K | #5,525 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 341 | #3,599 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 222 | #5,525 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 28 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 23 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mee mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from Irish Gaelic Mac Conmidhe; (ii) from Irish Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh, descendant of Miadhach, 'honourable' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Mee?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Mee a male or female name?
- Mee is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mee have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Mee in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mee.
- How common is the name Mee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,088 people named Mee in 2020, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.
- How common is Mee compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Mee is the 365th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mee?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mee” — the 365th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.